2024年度の活動報告
March 15, 2025 Musashi University International Symposium 'The Political Economy of Climate Change' Musashi University Online International Symposium on Political Economy of Climate Change
[Presentation]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YCQFTUCi74
[Discussion (Round Table)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYMcDB8PJK0
[Program]
● Host
Shinji Yokokawa (Musashi University), Myles Carroll (Ochanomizu University)
● Report
Robert Pollin (University of Massachusetts)
“The Political Economy of Saving the Planet.”
Jayati Ghosh (University of Massachusetts)
“The political economy of renewable energy.”
Erinç Yeldan (Kadir Has University)
“Combatting Climate Change under the Age of Hyper-Financialization. A Critical Call for Action.”
● Panel Discussion
Nozomu Kawabata (Tohoku University)
Makoto Maruyama (University of Tokyo)
Kang-Kook Lee. (Ritsumeikan University)
[Overview]
Climate scientists have warned that as long as greenhouse gas levels continue to rise, humanity will face ever more serious challenges. Understanding the causes of the worsening global climate crisis is a matter of climate science, but promoting viable projects to stabilize the Earth's climate—that is, feasible projects to stabilize the global climate—is simultaneously a challenge for political economy. Currently, about 75~80% of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere are dominated by current energy infrastructure, dominated by oil, coal, and natural gas. Within the comprehensive call to transform the global energy system, we identify the specific political and economic challenges that must be addressed to advance viable global climate stabilization projects.
(1) How should the global energy system be specifically transformed? What policy measures are most effective to achieve these transformations?
(2) How will these transformations impact broader economic challenges, such as job creation, poverty reduction, and widely shared economic well-being?
(3) How should the large-scale investments required to achieve these transformations be funded, and what standards of fairness should be established to establish sufficient levels of climate stabilization financing?
(4) How should the withdrawal from fossil fuels be managed, what happens to workers and communities dependent on the fossil fuel industry, and how can economic sectors such as steel and cement, which currently rely heavily on fossil fuel production methods, most effectively transition to alternative production methods?
(5) How can economies facing other critical economic challenges continue to focus on climate stabilization projects while simultaneously addressing other challenges?
This symposium, "The Political Economy of Climate Change," aims to answer many of these questions by clarifying (1) that it is actually possible to stabilize the climate, and (2) how to advance global climate stabilization projects in ways that support well-being that workers and the poor around the world can widely share.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YCQFTUCi74
[Discussion (Round Table)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYMcDB8PJK0
[Program]
● Host
Shinji Yokokawa (Musashi University), Myles Carroll (Ochanomizu University)
● Report
Robert Pollin (University of Massachusetts)
“The Political Economy of Saving the Planet.”
Jayati Ghosh (University of Massachusetts)
“The political economy of renewable energy.”
Erinç Yeldan (Kadir Has University)
“Combatting Climate Change under the Age of Hyper-Financialization. A Critical Call for Action.”
● Panel Discussion
Nozomu Kawabata (Tohoku University)
Makoto Maruyama (University of Tokyo)
Kang-Kook Lee. (Ritsumeikan University)
[Overview]
Climate scientists have warned that as long as greenhouse gas levels continue to rise, humanity will face ever more serious challenges. Understanding the causes of the worsening global climate crisis is a matter of climate science, but promoting viable projects to stabilize the Earth's climate—that is, feasible projects to stabilize the global climate—is simultaneously a challenge for political economy. Currently, about 75~80% of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere are dominated by current energy infrastructure, dominated by oil, coal, and natural gas. Within the comprehensive call to transform the global energy system, we identify the specific political and economic challenges that must be addressed to advance viable global climate stabilization projects.
(1) How should the global energy system be specifically transformed? What policy measures are most effective to achieve these transformations?
(2) How will these transformations impact broader economic challenges, such as job creation, poverty reduction, and widely shared economic well-being?
(3) How should the large-scale investments required to achieve these transformations be funded, and what standards of fairness should be established to establish sufficient levels of climate stabilization financing?
(4) How should the withdrawal from fossil fuels be managed, what happens to workers and communities dependent on the fossil fuel industry, and how can economic sectors such as steel and cement, which currently rely heavily on fossil fuel production methods, most effectively transition to alternative production methods?
(5) How can economies facing other critical economic challenges continue to focus on climate stabilization projects while simultaneously addressing other challenges?
This symposium, "The Political Economy of Climate Change," aims to answer many of these questions by clarifying (1) that it is actually possible to stabilize the climate, and (2) how to advance global climate stabilization projects in ways that support well-being that workers and the poor around the world can widely share.